The Obama administration has been secretly giving Russia free Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), a tactical force-on-force trainer, which uses a system of lasers and dummy ammunition to simulate ground combat for soldiers.

Behind closed doors the U.S. government is giving Russia free military equipmentalso used to train American troopseven after President Obama announced punitive sanctions against Moscow and, more importantly, a suspension in military engagement over the invasion and occupation of Ukraine.

The secret operation was exposed this week by members of Congress that discovered it in the process of reviewing the Fiscal Year 2014 budget and the proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget request. It turns out that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been providing the Russian Federation with the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), the federal legislators say. The U.S. military uses MILES for tactical force-on-force training because it has a system of lasers and dummy ammunition to simulate ground combat.

Its a crucial, military-grade technology thats similar to a laser tag available in some commercial markets, according to one of the outraged lawmakers (Oklahoma Republican Jim Bridenstine) that helped uncover the scandal. Bridenstine, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has joined forces with Ohio Republican Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, to demand an end to the program. Along with about a dozen other House colleagues they penned a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who oversees the agency carrying out the irresponsible military equipment transfers to Russia.

The Obama administrations planned supply to the Russian Federation is a grave mistake given the recent invasion of Ukraine launched by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, the legislators point out. It is difficult to imagine a worse time to provide military-grade technology employed by the U.S. Marine Corps, Army, and Special Operations Forces to Russia than when it has illegally invaded Ukraine and is violating the intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, the letter to Moniz says. To make matters worse, it is our understanding from the budget documents that the Department has been, and continues to propose, providing this technology to Russia free-of-charge.

Outdated training gear provided for training nuclear security troops under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It’s in the United States interest to see to it that Russian nukes aren’t stolen.

It’s been posted before and you are late to the party, but rant on along with the others who haven’t bothered to find out what is going on.

But it’s not worth reading the comments, just a bunch of rants from people who are not interested in learning that this report is a bunch of sound and fury. MILES gear is provided to nuclear states under provisions of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and START - something done long before Obama came into office.

I'm starting to think the rinos are just better than democrats in hiding their corruption. If they don't do anything about this, not to mention, Benghazi, IRS scandal, fast & furious....then they are in on it. I wondered why Hillary wasn't put under oath. Did they scratch her back for future favors, or helping protect her place for 2016?

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posted on 03/29/2014 7:39:06 PM PDT
by Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)

So before we finish our protest banners, when did this shared info program start???? Before 2008????

Long before, but you don't want facts getting in the way of a good outrage. Considering the source, Judicial Watch originally, repeated by Gateway Pundit, the only thing missing to make this a trifecta is a visit from InfoWars. Maybe tomorrow.

Wait till the libs find their internet is screwed because he gave that away as well. All the lib hipster backpack toting, Peruvian hat wearing, Occupy Wall street terrorists who constantly have their faces in ipod,ipads,iphones, and they find they cannot organize their next trust fund sponsored attack because the UN mandated internet access shall be censored in certain areas at certain times.

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posted on 03/29/2014 7:57:56 PM PDT
by GrandJediMasterYoda
(Republican has "I can" at the end. Democrat has "rat". Any questions?)

Gateway Pundit is a blog that will post anything they can get their hands on. In this case, they stole it from Judicial Watch, a very dubious source.

The basic facts are correct, we are supplying MILES to Russia and have been since the George H W. Bush Administration. It’s not a weapons system, not new, not a secret, and is used in very small numbers for training security around nuclear weapons storage sites.

Wait till the libs find their internet is screwed because he gave that away as well. All the lib hipster backpack toting, Peruvian hat wearing, Occupy Wall street terrorists who constantly have their faces in ipod,ipads,iphones, and they find they cannot organize their next trust fund sponsored attack because the UN mandated internet access shall be censored in certain areas at certain times.

I think the reason obama gave internet rights away is because of what we are doing right now. Obama gets away with a lot, but I think he realizes he could never get away with stopping freedom on the internet. Young people would be climbing the White House fence. This way whoever controls the internet will be blamed for taking away our freedom of speech; our free speech and anyone in the world who says things the left disagrees with. He is calculating as is all the left.

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posted on 03/29/2014 8:11:30 PM PDT
by Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)

Bridenstine and Turner have discovered something that we have been doing for about 15 years. It’s not high level military technology and I suspect that these two muldoons will vote for the bill as have their Republican colleagues since the Bush Administration.

Those who compare the bare-chested conqueror of the Crimea with the metro-sexual ruler of the United States and find our emperor weak to the point of deserving ridicule miss the essential strength of president Obama.

Its no ordinary weakling who can turn a once respected country into an international joke; reduce Congress to a gaggle of sniveling sycophants; turn the worlds finest medical system into a failed third rate socialist nightmare with a stroke of hi pen; shatter our constitution without the attempted recourse by the sons and daughters of frontiers men and pioneers whose blood was used to write that inspired document; and turn the people of our once- united states into a herd of competing minorities who, like suckling pigs, are afraid to lose his place on the government teat should he raise his voice to protest the ruin of our country.

So dont denigrate the nonentity ruler who has overcome his uncertain ancestry and ludicrous incompetence to do what no other king or dictator has been able to do in our 237-year history; He has destroyed America.

There has been so much frantic, passionate debunking of this story that the facts and meaningful questions have not come out. Why was it secret? Just a special favor for the Russians?? Why was it free? Just a special favor for the Russians?? Have other secret, free dual or multiple use technologies been transferred, what, when and by whom?

It seems to be the new technology, at least Special Operations grade equipment. ‘Combat Training Centers (NTC, JRTC, JMRC).

As of July 2006, the latest version of MILES was MILES XXI, provided by Lockheed Martin.[2]

As of July 2008, the latest version of MILES was MILES IWS, provided by Cubic Defense Applications.

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